Packing and Hurricane Irene

We spent two weeks in Everett sorting through 23 years of accumulation (multiple trips to the Goodwill and dump were made), moving Cassie & Evan out of the house into an apartment in Ballard, doing home and yard maintenance and cleaning the house for the new renters. If we didn't get a chance to see you, I apologize. We'll try to connect on the next visit, we barely had time to sit down on this one. In fact, we need a vacation after that last visit!

I knew I was back in SC when I left for work at 6:30am and it was over 80 degrees. The other indicators were that I (kind of) ran a red light and cars were passing me on the freeway (speed limit 65) as I was doing 70 mph like I was standing still. Yup, that's SC for you, the land where you don't stop for red lights or you'll be rear ended and travel at 20 mph over the posted speed limit. Mel and I have acclimated to the driving practices here extremely well as evidenced by the tickets received on our last visit to Washington state where driving like a bat out of hell is frowned upon.

Another part of life in the south is tracking and preparing for hurricanes. Mel has been in constant communication this week with the Boeing South Carolina’s Incident Coordination Team (ICT) to track Hurricane Irene and develop emergency contingencies for the Charleston site, should it hit here. Although initially Charleston was a possible target,the current tracking takes her east of Charleston through NC and up the east coast. Never fear, we aren't out of the woods yet, the end of hurricane season isn't until November.